One Cent Record Clubs and Predatory Discovery
What’s the value of music when your life is falling apart? How did that “ten…
Em Dashes and Witch Hunts With New Literary Inquisitors
It’s 2025, and I find myself caught in an ironic 21st-century witch hunt. Only this…
Love My Way: The Psychedelic Furs and the Marimba That Woke Me Up
What if one song could tell you it was okay to exist exactly as you…
When Free Speech Fought Back in 1985
Are we safe if a comedian does not have free speech? Were we safe when…
Pee Wee Herman: Lessons From a Manchild
By Rachael Price Nowadays, one does not usually understand the term “manchild” to be a…
Chrissie Hynde Taught Me How to Listen
What do a Midwestern punk queen from Ohio and a Beauty Queen from Chicagoland have…
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Empire of Soaring Flights To Faraway Lands: Tawnlandia
Can a young girl’s dream of flying to faraway lands forge a career? Can that career change? Will the Woman still go to faraway lands and take us with her? When we speak of Tawn and the Empire of Tawnlandia the answer is of course. She can do anything she wants. What is Tawlandia? If…
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Poly Styrene & the X-Ray Spex That See Through Bondage
Could a young woman change punk and inspire Riot Grrls? Would misdiagnosis of mental health derail her? Would she inspire someone to say up yours to bondage? If we are talking about Poly Styrene, the answer is definitively yes! I Am a Cliché Not a lot of you will know who Poly Styrene is, keep…
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The Soundtrack of Your Life in a Walkman
Did a man make a wholly unimpressive device just to listen to his tunes on a plane? Did the lack of features worry engineers? Were Sony executives concerned about social isolation? Did the world change and did we all want one? In the matter of the Walkman, yes. Making Plane Trips Tolerable and Accidental Revolutions…